The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-07
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


Each had a moments grace.
Then the fool-killer to the fly killer
''Thy name! know thee mott"
Twas told but the contract stunned him
He persisted on the spot.
When breeze in the window on biting
winter day
With poker and with anthracite we drive it far
away
We moan, and groan. and make fuss and dom
neglect to say:
Oh! blast the dreadful breezes of biting winter
day.
When breeze in the window on a melting
day
We ask prying questions, but WOO it in to stay
Past GOODNESS all forgiven, gladly, warmly say
Oh, bless the pleasant breezes of melting summer
| day.
A CERTAIN kind of women at Saratoga change
the colored ribbons about their pug dogs neck
twice day.
THE Repertoire de Ia Coincide Humane de
Balzac, just published in Paris, requires nearly
six hundred pages to name and describe the
character of Balzacs works.
PRINCE JEROME NAPOLEON is reported to be
about to publish book entitled Napoleon the
First and His Detractors," which will be a
complete exposition of Napoleonic ideas.
ID. Il. SAssoN, the largest dealer opium in
Hong Kong, recently arrived in San Francisco.
He declares that the culture of opium in China
is constantly increasing. and that a few years
will see Indian opium driven from the market.
The opium habit is gaining ground among the
Chinese people, despite the effort of the govern
ment to check it.
SPECIAL Agent Lee Meriwether, of the Labor
Department at Washington, has had considera-
bic trouble in getting photographs of Chinese in
San Francisco In an opium den which he en-
tered unexpectedly with three policemen, the
officers we're compelled to handcuff some of the
inmates in order to make them keep still and
submit to the camera.
Z New regulations in regard to the sales of
milk i'll Berlin went into effect on Aug. l. Every
vender is to have license and the milk is class
flied full ipurel milk" ''halt milk" and
clean milk" This is much like the London
classification of eggs. There they have new
laid eggs" frst-rate eggs, "fresh eggs" or
moderately good eggs, and eggs"
1GNATIys DoNNELLY's command of the Eng
lish language is remarkable, and his repartee is
quick. Once when he was delivering political
speech some one hurled head OF cabbage at
him. He paused second and said: Gentle
en-, only asked for your ears: l don't care for
your heads!" He not bothered any more
during the remainder of his speech
WRITING in the August number of The Young
Men, Mr.. Ruskn says: mo man should marry
until he has made himself worthy of good wife,
and able to maintain her and his children in
comfort. AND he should choose her as he would
choose his destiny; with range Of choice from
earth to heaven No man should marry under
our-andtwenty; no girl under eighteen"
ELISHA A. WELSH. the original Yankee
clock" man, died on Monday at Forestville,
Conn, aged seventy-eght. His twenty first
birthday came Sunday, and the next morn
ing he started in business for himself with two
employees, making clocks. His goods were ped
died all over the country fifty years ago, and
from two the number of his employees reached
n,A Iol nou cfofn fixvnt tod
over So 00O 900.
THEY had "old-fashioned fourth" at Yoko-
hama. correspondent Of the Baltimore Sun
writes that the celebration exceeded anything of
the sort in the memory of the oldest Inhabitants
Ali the men of war in the harbor in gala
dsTss and saluted tbs flag; there was hop
the flagship, boat racing, an illumination and
general rejoicing. Good for the eagle; the noble
bird docs not forget to scream. even at the anti
podes.
CAMULos, the old Spanish California ranch
selected by Mrs. Jackson as the home of IRA
mona" was the recently of the annual
barbecue of the Del Vale family, the owners Of
the hacienda for nearly century. Several
hundred relatives and friends were present
and gathered about the hospitabe board, which
was spread in the open air. The piece de resist
ance was noble bullock, barbecued in the
Spanish style
Mr.. ROSCOE CoNKLING says that in investing
money either for himself others, especially if
the investment were to be real estate, he would
rather take the judgment of intelligent
Catholic priest than of anybody else. He had
in his experience that the heads of the large
Catholic parishes almost invariably made judi
cious and profitable investment of clerical
money. His theory was that their mingling
much with many people made them exception
ally good men of affairs and excellent worldly
advisers.
THE late Judge Aaron Goodrich had sincere
contempt for all men who affected to be what
A. 11.<
to puncture the thin veil of their pretensions.
One of this ilk was discussing with him one day
the existence of God He atheist, and
remarked re-, with s sneer .If God lets me alone
Judge, Il have always had firm belief that you
gentlemen never had the least to for
worry as to Gods bothsring his head about you.
He finished you when you were created
ARCHBISHOP SEGHERs, who was recently
murdered on the Yukon river by his servant,
was one of the pioneers in carrying the gospel
into the far Northwest For thirty years he
had filled numerous posts on the frontier, and
for more than a decade he had labored in Alaska.
His mastery of Russian and of many Indian
dialects made him a power with the natives,
whom be always treated with great kindness.
He pleaded the cause of Alaska at the plenary
council in Baltimore il 1884 and made ar elo-
auent appeal for help in educating and Chris
tianizing the Indians
Miss AMELIA RIvEs is said to have already
written reams of matter good as her success
full Brother Dragons" She has long been
engaged to marry Persian Minister Pratt. whose
low financial status has delayed the wedding for
years. She had the reputation. even in her ten
der years, of being very lofty parsonage One
day a gentleman called at her Alabama home,
and usual with guests, was kept waiting sew
eral hours, until she finished painting picture.
AS he entered her studio she turned and said,
Nov that have finished this work, will de-
vote some time you" He bowed and left the
studio, remarking, Now that I have finished
waiting for you. will devote some time to my
self The minister to Persia figures as the hero
in this case as it was the first occasion she had
ever been matched, and she fell in love with the
victor.
The Wild-West Way.